Vision for the future

Sky Stone Circle was made by floating pumice stones on the calm surface of Lake Taupo in New Zealand in 1993. I wanted the stones to appear to float in the sky so I made the image without showing the surrounding landscape and focused on the clouds reflected in the lake. I wanted to achieve the impossible appearance of stones in the sky. The sculpture to refers to the carbon in the atmosphere causing global warming. The circle refers to the design of a circular regenerative economy modelled on nature as its solution.

In the same year Paul Hawken’s breakthrough book The Ecology of Commerce was published, opening the world's eyes to the potential of a regenerative economy. Now with an outstanding worldwide group of qualified scientists and researchers he has done it again with Drawdown.

The path to reversing global warming in 30 years is within our grasp. Drawdown is the point at which greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begin to decline year by year. The Project Drawdown team over the past few years has identified, researched and modelled 100 most-substantive existing solutions to address climate change: "The task now is to accelerate the knowledge and growth of what is possible".

Sky Stone Circle

Making Sky Stone Circle, 1993